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This page coordinates the Google Summer of Code projects involving Python and mentored by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in 2009.

The 2009 PSF SoC coordinator is ArcRiley <arcriley@gmail.com>. Contact him if you have any questions.

Prospective Students

If you are a student interested in working on core Python development or on a project that helps the Python community, we'd love to have you apply to the Python Software Foundation for this year's Google Summer of Code.

You should join the soc2009-general mailing list and take a look at the Project Ideas section below. If any interest you, feel free to contact the proposer for details. You can also discuss your own project ideas with the people mentioned or talk about them on the soc2009-general mailing list. Some of us also hang out on #gsoc-python on freenode.

Students should read SummerOfCode/Expectations to understand what is expected of them.

Project Ideas

These are project ideas proposed by mentors grouped roughly on the type of work it entails. Use the provided links for each for more information and contact the mentors interested in it.

Note: This list of project ideas is still being expanded; check back regularly!

Summary	Useful skills and experience	Contact
Core Python
Improve the 2to3 tool for better Python 3 migration	Python, Python3	BenjaminPeterson
3to2 tool for backporting Py3 code	Python, Python3	BenjaminPeterson
Extend subprocess module	Python	TitusBrown
Provide nose wrapper for core Python test framework	Python	TitusBrown
Improve C and Python test coverage for core	C, Python	TitusBrown
Implement branch coverage recording for CPython	C, Python	TitusBrown
Helper Python core development tools	Python, dev tools	Ali Afshar, DanielDiniz
Development
Buildbot replacement	Python, Buildbot	TitusBrown
Distutils test framework using PYPI. See this page	Python, Buildbot	Tarek Ziadé
Build a keyring library for Python. See this page	Python	Tarek Ziadé
Cython has a list of potential projects	Python, C	CythonTeam
Sphinx has a list of potential projects as well -- contact #pocoo on freenode	Python, potentially HTML/JavaScript	GeorgBrandl
Stackless Python has a list of potential projects	Python, C, C++	Richard Tew
PyPy also has a list of potential projects	Python	the PyPy team
Roundup / Python Tracker enhancements	Python	Stefan Seefeld, MartinvonLoewis, DanielDiniz
Education
Porting Crunchy to Python 3.0	Python, Python3, WSGI	André Roberge
Adapting RUR-PLE as a Crunchy plugin	Python, javascript	André Roberge
Gaming
Accelerated soy.fields physics in PySoy	Python, C, liboil, ODE	EricStein
Character animation in PySoy using GLSL	Python, C, OpenGL, Quaternion math	BlaisePascal
Programmable rendering models in PySoy	Python, C, OpenGL	ArcRiley
Themeable widgets with inheritance in PySoy	Python, C, OpenGL	ArcRiley
PyGame has their own ideas page	Python, C (varied)	PyGame
MathSci
Extracting matplotlib's mathematical expression renderer a standalone project	Python	MplMentors
Adding an html5/canvas backend to matplotlib	Python, HTML5	MplMentors
NumPy and SciPy has a list of project ideas	Python	SciPy/NumPy team
SymPy has a list of project ideas	Python	SymPy team
Networking
Gajim propose some ideas.	Python, XMPP	Yann Leboulanger
Testing
Port figleaf to Python3	Python3	TitusBrown
Integrate C coverage reporting into figleaf	C, Python	TitusBrown
Pythoscope enhancements	Python, unit testing, code generation	Michał Kwiatkowski
Miscellaneous
Build suite of migration tools to help people move projects between forges like DrProject, SourceForge, Google Code, Trac, etc.	Python, Trac/SF/GC	Blake Winton, Greg Wilson, David Wolever
Plastex performance improvements and MathML extensions (so we can finally retire Latex2Html)	Python, LaTeX	Kevin D. Smith, Greg Wilson
Extend Pysync version control abstraction library to work with more VCS's and provide write access as well as read	Python, C, CVS/SVN/P4/Git/Hg/Bzr/etc.	Aran Donohue, Christian Muise, Greg Wilson
Build Python into BOINC/GridRepublic	Python	TitusBrown
Work on pygr	Python, bioinformatics	TitusBrown
Tahoe: implement the storage server protocol over HTTP -- details	Python, networking, HTTP	TahoeMentors
Tahoe: FUSE integration -- details, more details	Python, filesystems, Linux kernel	TahoeMentors
Tahoe: visualization -- real-time and historical filesystem performance, and social network	Python, GUI	TahoeMentors
Tahoe: DVCS-on-Tahoe -- integrate a DVCS such as Mercurial to make an indestructible "repository in the clouds" -- details	Python, DVCS	TahoeMentors
Tahoe: semi-private keys -- prove the security of a new form of public key cryptography, and implement it -- details	Python, mathematics	TahoeMentors

Mentor Instructions

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 * Accelerated soy.fields physics in [[http://www.pysoy.org/|PySoy]] ([[mailto:arcriley@gmail.com|Arc Riley]])
+||<tablestyle="border: 1px solid #000; width:100%;">'''Summary'''||'''Useful skills and experience'''||'''Contact'''||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Core Python ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Improve the [[2to3]] tool for better Python 3 migration ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, Python3 ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> BenjaminPeterson ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> 3to2 tool for backporting Py3 code ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, Python3 ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> BenjaminPeterson ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Extend subprocess module ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Provide nose wrapper for core Python test framework  ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Improve C and Python test coverage for core  ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> C, Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Implement branch coverage recording for CPython  ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> C, Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Helper Python core development tools  ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, dev tools ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:aafshar@gmail.com|Ali Afshar]], DanielDiniz  ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Development ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2009-March/001277.html|Buildbot replacement]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, Buildbot ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Distutils test framework using PYPI. See [[http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/a-distutils-regression-test-system/|this page]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, Buildbot ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[mailto:ziade.tarek@gmail.com|Tarek Ziadé]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Build a keyring library for Python. See [[http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/pycon-hallway-session-1-a-keyring-library-for-python/|this page]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[mailto:ziade.tarek@gmail.com|Tarek Ziadé]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://cython.org|Cython]] has a list of [[http://wiki.cython.org/codeprojects|potential projects]]||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://cython.org/#community|CythonTeam]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://sphinx.pocoo.org|Sphinx]] has a list of [[http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/wiki/SoC|potential projects]] as well -- contact #pocoo on freenode ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, potentially HTML/JavaScript ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> GeorgBrandl ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://stackless.com|Stackless Python]] has a list of [[http://stackless.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2009|potential projects]]||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C, C++ ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:richard.m.tew@gmail.com?subject=GSOC%202009%20Stackless|Richard Tew]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://codespeak.net/pypy|PyPy]] also has a list of [[http://codespeak.net/pypy/trunk/pypy/doc/project-ideas.txt|potential projects]]||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:pypy-dev@codespeak.net|the PyPy team]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://www.roundup-tracker.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/SummerOfCodeIdeas|Roundup]] / [[http://bugs.python.org|Python Tracker]] enhancements||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/roundup-devel|Stefan Seefeld]], MartinvonLoewis, DanielDiniz ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Education ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Porting [[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy|Crunchy]] to Python 3.0 ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, Python3, WSGI ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:andre.roberge@gmail.com|André Roberge]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Adapting [[http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net|RUR-PLE]] as a [[http://code.google.com/p/crunchy|Crunchy]] plugin ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python,  javascript ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:andre.roberge@gmail.com|André Roberge]] ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Gaming ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Accelerated soy.fields physics in [[http://www.pysoy.org/|PySoy]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C, [[http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/|liboil]], [[http://opende.sourceforge.net/|ODE]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> EricStein ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Character animation in [[http://www.pysoy.org/|PySoy]] using GLSL ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C, OpenGL, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion|Quaternion math]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> BlaisePascal ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://www.pysoy.org/ticket/976|Programmable rendering models]] in [[http://www.pysoy.org/|PySoy]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C, OpenGL ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> ArcRiley ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://www.pysoy.org/ticket/977|Themeable widgets with inheritance]] in [[http://www.pysoy.org/|PySoy]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C, OpenGL ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> ArcRiley ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://pygame.org/|PyGame]] has their own [[http://pygame.org/wiki/gsoc2009ideas|ideas page]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C (varied) ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://pygame.org/wiki/gsoc2009ideas|PyGame]] ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> !MathSci ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Extracting [[http://matplotlib.sf.net/|matplotlib]]'s mathematical expression renderer a standalone project ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> MplMentors ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Adding an html5/canvas backend to [[http://matplotlib.sf.net/|matplotlib]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, HTML5 ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> MplMentors ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://numpy.scipy.org/|NumPy]] and [[http://www.scipy.org/|SciPy]] has a list of [[http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/wiki/SummerofCodeIdeas|project ideas]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[http://www.scipy.org/Developer_Zone|SciPy/NumPy team]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/|SymPy]] has a list of [[http://wiki.sympy.org/wiki/GSoC2009Ideas|project ideas]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[http://code.google.com/p/sympy/|SymPy team]] ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Networking ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://gajim.org/|Gajim]] propose some [[http://trac.gajim.org/wiki/GajimGSOC|ideas]].||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, XMPP ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:asterix@lagaule.org|Yann Leboulanger]] ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Testing ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Port figleaf to Python3 ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python3 ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Integrate C coverage reporting into figleaf ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> C, Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://pythoscope.org/|Pythoscope]] enhancements ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, unit testing, code generation ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[mailto:constant.beta@gmail.com|Michał Kwiatkowski]] ||
||||||<style="color:#366D9C;font-size:140%;font-weight:bold;border-bottom: 1px solid #000;border-top: 1px solid #000"> Miscellaneous ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Build suite of migration tools to help people move projects between forges like DrProject, SourceForge, Google Code, Trac, etc. ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, Trac/SF/GC ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[mailto:bwinton@latte.ca|Blake Winton]], [[mailto:gvwilson@cs.toronto.edu|Greg Wilson]], [[mailto:wolever@cs.toronto.edu|David Wolever]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://plastex.sourceforge.net|Plastex]] performance improvements and [[http://www.w3.org/Math/|MathML]] extensions (so we can finally retire Latex2Html) ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, LaTeX ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[Kevin.Smith@sixquickrun.com|Kevin D. Smith]], [[mailto:gvwilson@cs.toronto.edu|Greg Wilson]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Extend [[http://code.google.com/p/pysync/|Pysync]] version control abstraction library to work with more VCS's and provide write access as well as read||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, C, CVS/SVN/P4/Git/Hg/Bzr/etc. ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;">  [[mailto:ad@cs.toronto.edu|Aran Donohue]], [[mailto:cjmuise@cs.toronto.edu|Christian Muise]], [[mailto:gvwilson@cs.toronto.edu|Greg Wilson]] ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Build Python into BOINC/GridRepublic ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Work on [[http://pygr.org/|pygr]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, bioinformatics ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TitusBrown ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas|Tahoe]]: implement the storage server protocol over HTTP -- [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/510|details]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, networking, HTTP ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TahoeMentors ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas|Tahoe]]: FUSE integration -- [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/36|details]], [[http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2008-November/000885.html|more details]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, filesystems, Linux kernel ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TahoeMentors ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas|Tahoe]]: visualization -- real-time and historical filesystem performance, and social network ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, GUI ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TahoeMentors ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas|Tahoe]]: DVCS-on-Tahoe -- integrate a DVCS such as Mercurial to make an indestructible "repository in the clouds" -- [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/663|details]] ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, DVCS ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TahoeMentors ||
||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas|Tahoe]]: semi-private keys -- prove the security of a new form of public key cryptography, and implement it -- [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/217|details]]||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> Python, mathematics ||<style="border-bottom:1px dotted #000;"> TahoeMentors ||
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== Performance ==
Project ideas related to application performance:
 * Robust and fast (C with python fallback) memcache client implementation ([[mailto:wichert@wiggy.net|Wichert Akkerman]])
 
== Web ==
Project ideas for Python web frameworks and template engines:
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 * [[http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2009|Django Software Foundation]]
 * [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/SummerOfCode|Mercurial]]
 * [[http://code.google.com/p/soc/wiki/GSoC2009Ideas|Melange]]
 * [[http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/user/matthewwilkes/pil2009|Plone Foundation]]
 * [[http://scons.org/wiki/GSoC2009|SCons]]
 * [[http://code.google.com/p/swig-gsoc/wiki/ProjectIdeas|SWIG]]
 * [[http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GSoC/2009/Ideas|Blender]]
 * [[http://moinmo.in/GoogleSoc2009/InitialProjectIdeas|MoinMoin]]
 * [[http://www.review-board.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_Ideas|Review Board]]
 * [[http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/GSoCIdeas|Tahoe LAFS]]

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